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Just upgraded my Navigon to version 2.3 and it now offers iCloud/Foursquare/Glympse support.
Just upgraded my Navigon to version 2.3 and it now offers iCloud/Foursquare/Glympse support.
So, in order to get this right, right data is needed, Foursquare have proven that a lot of information is simply inaccurate so why integrate this? It's better to make 'or' a deal with Google themselves or use your own employees world wide to edit new correct information into Apple Maps. These things takes time and it's better to build it with the right source material then to rely on inaccurate data.
I used it for several months. The merchant discounts are nice, but they're so few and far between. Aside from that, I'm not sure what the draw is. Do I really care where my friends are at any given moment? Do they care where I am? It's a pretty superfluous app when you think about, so I don't see a whole lot of value in having it integrated into iOS.
Finally.
Using Foursquare means user-generated content. It is MUCH more accurate than Yelp and is always up to date because the users ensure it is.
I love Foursquare. So happy to see this.
EDIT: FWIW, Foursqare was added to the App Store Hall of Fame this year.
If apple waited for it to be perfect it would never be released. Data constantly changes etc..
How many employees do you think Apple would need to build/curate/maintain, by hand, a location database that is up-to-date and accurate throughout the entire world on their own? It's a near impossible task without crowdsourcing. Even Google relies largely on users to maintain its database.
No location database is perfect, but Foursquare is the best out there in many parts of the world (certainly it's pretty good here in the UK). Probably second only to Google (and we know a deal with them isn't going to happen). Foursquare *is* pretty accurate, by nature. Its social aspect means that entries that are inaccurate quickly get corrected by its users.
This also doesn't mean that Maps will *only* use Foursquare locations - I suspect Foursquare, and perhaps other providers in the future, will be augmenting what Apple already have.
Why, are all of the streets wrong?
There is an interstate extension that was completed in 2012; Google maps shows it. My 3 year old GPS maps does not (of course). Ergo, Google maps is hardly "outdated." Maybe it lacks the design that Apple maps does but here's a fun fact, I've yet to hear Google maps was dead wrong when showing a location of a building, park, interstate, etc.
I think Apple should step back, forget foursquare and ******** social media, and make their maps app something that we can be glad to use.
You don't get it. Maps needs "foursquare and ******** social media" to be be competitive and useful.
Without crowd sourced data, Apple will never have the resources to make (and keep) Maps comprehensive and up-to-date.
Well whatever happens it's not going to be tomorrow or this year. It's been a couple months and our Maps still hasn't been updated. Google Maps ftw!
How many employees do you think Apple would need to build/curate/maintain, by hand, a location database that is up-to-date and accurate throughout the entire world on their own? It's a near impossible task without crowdsourcing. Even Google relies largely on users to maintain its database.
You need to think of the app and the data separately, because they are. The app has not been updated, but the data has - I have already noticed POI additions.
As long as I have the choice to not send any data to them. I'm not a foursquare user for a reason.
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If apple waited for it to be perfect it would never be released. Data constantly changes etc
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For you no. But you are not everyone and everywhere. Some of us have been dealing with bad and never corrected info from Google for years.
Just something that I noticed: The satellite data for UK maps has improved an awful lot since maps was released first. There were huge areas in the south in awful quality; for example Brighton was awful, now the satellite images are perfectly fine. My previous home was in a huge area of very low quality, and that has been almost completely changed to decent quality images.
The company that Apple got its Australian maps from says the have eight vehicles touring Australia constantly, and they claim it takes them eighteen months to cover the country and do one round of updating all the maps.
And as an user I don't feel much for signing up as some kind of "social contributor" to explain to a company that this bar isn't there.
10-4. I haven't seen a difference where I'm at and the cities I travel to - Atlanta, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Richmond to name a few. My iPhone takes me on the same dead end routes =/.
why do you keep taking the same dead end routes? maps or no maps, you'd think you'd learn the routes the first time